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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. HOWARD, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,020, dated November 28, 1882.

Application filed April 22, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: p Be it known that 1, GEORGE H. HOWARD, residing at Washington, in the District of Oolumbia, have invented certain new and useful.

Improvements in Dolls, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is designedto increase the value of dolls as means of amusementfor children.

To this end the invention consists in making the doll extensible,whereby the idea of' growth, as of 4a child, may be carried into effect.

The improved, doll may be constructed in any suitable manner, giving extensibility to the body or body and members.

In' the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents in full lines a doll not extended, the dotted lines showing it extended to indicate growth. Fig. 2 shows a doll provided Vwith mechanism which causes its automatic extension.`

Referring to Fig. 1. A is the body or trunk of the doll.` At any part ot' the trunk and at any convenient part of the arms (as below the shoulder) and of the lower limbs (as at the thigh) is inserted a tube, (as at a a a2 c3 m1,)`

Ymay all be attached to the trunk proper and the arms and lower limbs be provided with pins, and attached as a whole to the trunk'. The pins may also be fixed to the trunk and the tubes to the members or movable parts. The trunk mayalso be made extensible. I do not confine this part of my invention to the"l use of iiexible tubes and socket-pins'adapted to t therein, nor to the use in any manner of tubes and pins, its scope reaching .broadly to a sectional or extensible doll.

' The second part of my invention consists in constructing the truuk in two sections and applying thereto a clockanovement, which ef-` fects the automatic elongation of the body of the doll. This preferably consists in the mechanism shown in Fig. 2. B is a screw, conv necting the two sections of the trunk., which lordinary system of wheels. (Not here shown.)

The movement is inclosed within a section of the trunk in a manner common with mechanical toys. Sliding connections between the two parts of the trunk are provided in the pins 6, secured at e2 and slipping in the staples e. The line to be occupied in the automatic extension ot' the doll-body may be made to suit the option of the manufacturer. `The `automatic features here described may be used in connection with the means for extending the arms and lower limbs described as of the first part of my invention or alone,.as may be preferred.

l have made certain improvements on the invention herein described, consisting in a rack and pinion and other means of extending the doll in length, and which enable it to be readily collapsed or shortened on disengaging the mechanism, which improvements will form the subject ot1 another application.

1I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a sectional or extensible doll, substantially as hereinbefore described. l

2. A doll having as parts of' its trunk and members extensible joints, substantially as hereinbefore set torth.

3. A doll having combined with its trunk and members tlexible tubes and pinsv adapted to fit therein, forming together extensible joints, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

et. A doll formed in sections and provided with a clock-movement for automatically giving it extension, substantially as hereiubefore set forth.

5. A doll having its trunk formed in two sections vunited by a screw, having a nut in one section and a fixed `bearing in the other, said Vscrew being driven by clock-work, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. HOWARD. Witnesses:

W. T. COLE, ,CHARLES P. WEBsTER.

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